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SCIENCE. 



[N. S. Vol. XIX. No. 495. 



SCIENTIFIC NOTES AND NEWS. 



Dr. Louis S. McMurtry, of Louisville, Ky., 

 lias been elected president of the American 

 Medical Association for the meeting to be 

 held next year at Portland, Ore. 



Professor George Darwin, of Cambridge, 

 will succeed Mr. Balfour as president of the 

 British Association, and will preside over the 

 meeting to be held in South Africa next year. 



Professor Simon Newcomb has been elected 

 corresponding member of the Berlin Academy 

 of Sciences. 



At its meeting on June 9, the Geological 

 Society of London elected Professor J. P. 

 Iddings, of Chicago, as a foreign member, 

 while Dr. W. Bullock Clark, of Baltimore, and 

 Hon. Frank Springer, of East Las Vegas, New 

 Mexico, were elected foreign correspondents. 



M. Henri Moissan, the eminent French 

 chemist, has been elected a corresponding 

 member of the Academies of Sciences of 

 Vienna and Amsterdam. 



Dr. 0. S. Sherrington, professor of physi- 

 ology in the University of Liverpool, has been 

 elected a member of the Imperial Academy of 

 Medicine, Vienna. 



The Vienna Academy of Sciences has 

 awarded its Baumgarten prize, of the value 

 of about $800, to Professor Walter Kaufmann 

 for his investigations on the theory of elec- 

 trons. 



The Liebig gold medal for distinguished 

 services in applied chemistry of the Associa- 

 tion of German Chemists has been presented 

 to Dr. Rudolf Knietsch, of the Badische Ani- 

 lin und Soda-Fabrik, the discoverer of the con- 

 tact process of sulphuric acid manufacture. 



At the forty-fifth general meeting of the 

 German Engineers' Association the Grashof 

 medal, instituted in honor of the founder of 

 the association, was unanimously conferred 

 on the two pioneers of steam turbine propul- 

 sion, the Hon. C. A. Parsons, of Newcastle- 

 on-Tyne, and M. de Laval, of Stockholm. 



At its recent commencement exercises the 

 University of Pennsylvania conferred the doc- 

 torate of science on Russell Henry Chitten- 

 den, professor of chemistry at Tale Univer- 



sity, and George Dock, professor of theory 

 and practise of medicine at the University of 

 Michigan; and the doctorate of laws on Sir 

 Frederick Treves, the British surgeon; Henry 

 Pickering Bowditch, professor of physiology in 

 Harvard Medical School, and Dr. H. 0. Wood, 

 professor of therapeutics, materia medica and 

 pharmacy at the University of Pennsylvania. 



Princeton University has conferred the de- 

 gree of doctor of science on Dr. Per Dusen, 

 the naturalist of Rio de Janeiro, and the de- 

 gree of master of arts on Mr. Gifford Pinchot, 

 chief of the Bureau of Forestry. 



The new chemical laboratory of the Uni- 

 versity of Utrecht, named in honor of Pro- 

 fessor J. H. van't Hoff, has been formally 

 opened. On the occasion Professor van't 

 Ploff was given the honorary doctorate by 

 the university. 



M. Barrois has been elected a member of the 

 Paris Academy of Sciences in the section of 

 mineralogy in the room, of the late M. Fouque. 



Professor Bashford Dean, of Columbia 

 University, will attend the International 

 Zoological Congress at Bern, and will visit 

 a number of European museums. 



Dr. G. Cantor has celebrated the twenty- 

 fifth anniversary of his professorship of mathe- 

 matics at Halle. 



Professor J. Volhard, director of the 

 Chemical Laboratory of the University of 

 Halle, celebrated on June 4 his seventieth 

 birthday. 



Mr. Santos-Dumont has arrived in this 

 country with his dirigible balloon in which 

 he will take part in the St. Louis aeronautic 

 competition. 



Professor J. J. Thomson, of Cambridge, 

 delivered the Robert Boyle lecture in the hall 

 of Balliol College, Oxford, on June 3, his sub- 

 ject being ' The Structure of the Atom.' 



In connection with the meeting of the 

 American Medical Association at Atlantic 

 City, there was organized a National Associa- 

 tion for the Study and Prevention of Tuber- 

 culosis. Dr. E. L. Trudeau, of Saranac Lake, 

 N. Y., was elected president. 



